To the minibar...FOR JUSTICE!

You guys.

You guys, you guys.

I am absolutely stupid with delight that I get to announce this now. STUPID WITH DELIGHT. Guess what I'm announcing. Go on, guess.

Have you guessed yet?

On November 9th, 2012, ISFiC Press will be publishing Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, volume one in the ongoing adventures of Velma "Velveteen" Martinez.

That's right. A print edition.

ARE YOU EXCITED YET?!

The book will be printed as a limited hardcover edition of 1,000 copies, with cover art by the incomparable Dave Dorman. If you're coming to WindyCon, you'll be able to pick up your copy on the spot. If not, you can order through their website above. The anticipated cover price is $25.00, although we won't know for sure until we get the quote back from the printer.

For those of you who don't do physical books anymore, there will also be an eBook edition, priced at $9.99.

(Please don't complain to me about the eBook price. All the stories remain freely available for your reading pleasure. Buying the eBook just means you're helping to feed my cats, and for that, I thank you.)

According to my contact at ISFiC, the book will be...

"Available through the ISFiC Press website for both hardcover and e-book. Also available through Amazon.com for hardcover, but their ordering and shipping arrangements are Byzantine for small publishers, so you will get it cheaper from them and faster from ISFiC Press.

"E-book edition should be available also from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBookStore, Reader Store, Kobo, Copia, Gardners, Baker & Taylor, and eBookPie."

This volume collects "Velveteen vs. The Isley Crawfish Festival" through "Velveteen vs. The Blind Date," with all new supplemental files on Vel and her allies, an introduction by Jim "Captain Escher" Hines, and an afterward by Carrie "Goblin Shark" Vaughn. All the stories have been revised and rewritten to bring them into full alignment.

I am, like, super-excited about this book, and I'm probably going to wind up buying like ten copies just for myself. So you should totally get yours before they're all up, up, and away.

Velveteen in print.

Eeeeeeeeeeee.

September 15 2012, 00:55:25 UTC 4 years ago

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Always nice to see progress in your take over of modern western culture.

seanan_mcguire

September 15 2012, 16:01:40 UTC 4 years ago

Step by step, inch by inch...

wfw_sj

September 15 2012, 01:16:46 UTC 4 years ago

Wonderhugs of blunderjoy!

September 15 2012, 16:06:47 UTC 4 years ago

Hee yes.

bookmarkedpage

September 15 2012, 02:17:55 UTC 4 years ago

So exciting! I kept wanting to go back and read the Velveteen stories but then I'd get distracted or lose my place and start over again. So excited to be able to have a physical or ebook copy to read and mark where I am!

HAIL CONVENIENCE!

September 15 2012, 16:06:55 UTC 4 years ago

HAIL!

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September 15 2012, 16:07:02 UTC 4 years ago

Me, too.

meggins

September 15 2012, 03:22:29 UTC 4 years ago

ARE YOU EXCITED YET?!

Damn skippy!

September 15 2012, 16:07:09 UTC 4 years ago

Yay!

Billy O'Neal

September 15 2012, 04:28:47 UTC 4 years ago

(Please don't complain to me about the eBook price. <-- No reason to complain! Entirely reasonable.

September 15 2012, 16:07:19 UTC 4 years ago

Excellent.

rose_clover

September 15 2012, 04:56:36 UTC 4 years ago

SO AWESOME!!!!! Velveteen was the first I read of your work, and convinced me to buy everything else!!!

September 15 2012, 16:07:28 UTC 4 years ago

That's fabulous!

liret

September 15 2012, 06:29:00 UTC 4 years ago

This is awesome. Yay Vel!

September 15 2012, 16:07:36 UTC 4 years ago

Glee.

mneme

September 15 2012, 06:31:44 UTC 4 years ago

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

The Velveteen vs. stories are awesome, and I'd love it if they became popular to have a mainstream edition (and maybe a movie or comic version? The minds eye is perfect, but seeing things through other people's eyes is awesome too!). This is certainly a step in that direction (and I approve of your cats getting fed).

September 15 2012, 16:07:49 UTC 4 years ago

Hooray!

romsfuulynn

September 15 2012, 07:21:36 UTC 4 years ago

yay!!!

September 15 2012, 16:07:58 UTC 4 years ago

ironed_orchid

September 15 2012, 13:03:29 UTC 4 years ago

(Please don't complain to me about the eBook price. All the stories remain freely available for your reading pleasure. Buying the eBook just means you're helping to feed my cats, and for that, I thank you.)

And this, ladies, gentlemen, and blue furry creatures from alpha centuri, is how you balance putting your work out there for free with making it available to people who want their very own copy.

You are fabulous.

September 15 2012, 16:08:12 UTC 4 years ago

Aw, thanks, sweetie.

elialshadowpine

September 16 2012, 07:59:40 UTC 4 years ago

EEEE

September 17 2012, 17:04:36 UTC 4 years ago

YES

incandescens

September 16 2012, 16:58:51 UTC 4 years ago

Awesome! I shall be feeding your cats!

September 17 2012, 17:04:44 UTC 4 years ago

batyatoon

September 16 2012, 18:20:38 UTC 4 years ago

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

*TURNS HANDSPRINGS*

September 17 2012, 17:04:52 UTC 4 years ago

I am so happy.

thedragonweaver

September 18 2012, 01:55:06 UTC 4 years ago

Bit of a ramble, here: I drive up to Oregon via I-5 several times a year. And I do all the driving, which means a lot of time to think, because in general it's with the kids and there's only so much concentration I can expend on the under-five set. The drive, as you probably know, goes through Redding. Now, of course. I remember that in the Velveteen universe, it was destroyed, but I haven't had the time to go back through the stories to find where that was mentioned, and if you particularly said how it was destroyed.

If it hasn't been specified, I know exactly how it was done. And do maps count as fan art? 'Cause I think that would be a particularly nice exercise to make manifest (as I want this to be as accurate as possible, because I have very weird standards sometimes.)

All the odd things I think as I'm driving by the smallest mountain range in the world...